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August 16, 2018

Please read Part I first.

What is Going On At
Comoros Islands?
Comoros is one of the islands on their list that
they wish to bring renewable energy to. It actually
consists of three islands, with the largest island
being the main focus. It is located just off the
coast of Africa between Tanzania and
Mozambique, with a population of 800,000.
Comoros is a Tier 3 Island, meaning they have a
severe problem with child and human trafficking,
and the U.S. may be restricting aid to them.

In fact, in the U.S. 2018 ‘Trafficking in Persons

Y
Report’, the government of Comoros has literally
done little to nothing to help exploited children or
prevent trafficking. This is the assessment:

“The Government of
Comoros does not fully
meet the minimum
standards for the
elimination of trafficking
and is not making
significant efforts to do so;
on therefore Comoros
remained on Tier 3. Despite
the lack of significant
efforts, the government
took some steps to address
trafficking by funding the
salaries of new personnel at
a listening center that
n
provided assistance to
victims and by adding a
second emergency hotline
ns to ensure crimes from all
three islands could be
reported. However, the
ns at government did not
investigate, prosecute, or
obtain convictions for any
e sex trafficking or forced
labor crimes, including
those committed by
es A complicit officials.

Since 2014, it did not

identify or refer any
trafficking victims to
protective services, and
lacked formal procedures to
do so. Authorities continued
to lack an understanding of
trafficking, and the
government did not provide
 adequate resources or
training to law enforcement
officials, including the office
charged with investigating
child abuse and
exploitation. The extensive
use of mediation and
financial settlements in lieu
of investigation and
prosecution of crimes
resulted in the return of
children to their alleged
exploiters. The Anti-
trafficking Task Force,
which became operational
in 2016, made no
discernible efforts during
the reporting period.”

That being said, there is something oddly strange

when viewing this island via satellite. A pattern of
trees planted to form what literally looks like a
profile of a pigs head, along with some strange
grid pattern of additional trees atop it. Located
within it, there is another strange image of what
would appear to be a very large disc-shaped
reflective material with an opening in the center. It
looks to be inset on a slight pitch into one of the
crater-like mounds. Is it some sort of a solar
device, missile launch site, or entrance to some
peculiar underground area? Hard to say. If it is
some sort of solar mechanism, the nearest home
would appear to be quite a distance from it,
located north, outside the main perimeter of
trees, within its own square perimeter of trees.
Going further north and just a hair west, up near
the figure eight shaped crater-mound, there is
another home with a purple roof. Both seem quite
a distance from this reflective disc-shaped
material.

The overall outline of the tree pattern spans

roughly 2 miles, accounting for one heck of a lot of
trees. The silver disc is approximately 130′ across
based on google map’s measurements. There are
very interesting crater-like mounds on the north
end of it as well. This was once a volcanic island,
so that may explain these inverted mounds?

Despite all of this, members of the Clinton

Foundation visited Comoros Island in February,
2018 to discuss sustainable development
initiatives, moving full steam ahead.

Two months later, when April, 2018 rolled around,

President Assoumani suspended the country’s
constitutional court, calling it dysfunctional. He
proposed a constitutional referendum would be
held in July, and was gunning to end the system
that rotated the single-term federal presidency
among the three islands, as well as to allow a
president to serve up to two terms. His hope was
that if the referendum passed, he would be
eligible in the 2019 elections for two new terms as
president. There was a lot of resistance and he
was accused of an attempted power grab.

In early July it was reported that vice president of

Comoros was stripped of most of his duties due to
 denouncing President Assoumani’s plan. The
referendum was held on July 30, 2018 and the
proposed changed included elimination of a one-
term presidency, would grant the president the
power to dismiss the three vice presidents, as well
as ending Comoro’s secular status, designating
Islam as the state religion. Despite the incredible
opposition boycott, there was a 60% turnout and
the electoral commission claimed that almost 93%
RSS of the voters supported the referendum.
Opposition leaders and others disagreed with the
on
reported results. A story all too familiar. What is at
stake for President Assoumani to stay the laws so
he may remain President?

ER On August 13, 2018, President Trump nominated

Michael Peter Pelletier of Maine to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
the United States of America to the Republic of
Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros.
Perhaps Mr. Pelletier will have a closer look as to
what’s going on at the Comoros islands.

Who Are The Shipmates?

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DNV GL: Technical Partner and Lead – industry
standard, project development and procurement

ls Clinton Foundation: Technical Assistance and

Procurement

Rocky Mountain Institute/Carbon War Room:

Provides overview and recommendation of
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renewable solution, including technology
risk/benefits, overview and recommendation of
proposed project investment sites, and develop
cy process steps and time for project schedule.
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he GRUPOTEC: Saint Lucia – An international firm
founded in 2011 and based out of the United
Kingdom, develops solar plants and undertook the
engineering, procurement, and construction of
litics-the solar farm.

LUCELEC: Saint Lucia – Monopoly utility company

in Saint Lucia who the government owns shares
in, as well as EMERA being a top three
shareholder, working with National project
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coordinator to facilitate development and
implementation of renewable energy.
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Solar Head of State: Based in Oakland, CA they

began installations in 2010 and are entirely
o volunteer-driven and funded by donations since
inception. A non-profit organization working with
w governments. They provide, free-of-charge solar
ed photovoltaic systems on iconic buildings such as
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executive residences. Partner with the Clinton
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Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute, IRENA, and
several others. One of its advisors is Jigar Shah,

a- Co-founder of Carbon War Room with Richard

Branson. Another advisor is Danny Kennedy,
former owner of Sungevity, who provides some of
the free solar panels.

IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency –

promotes adoption and sustainable use of
renewable energy.

rt II: CARILEC: Caribbean Electric Utility Services

Corporation – trains member utilities on
renewable energy resource development

Part EMERA (Caribbean) Inc.: Electric services

company that provides power to many islands
 (not on the Saint Lucia project but is a top
shareholder in LUCELEC).

art Plus several other utility companies and

stakeholder agencies/organizations.

Staying The Course:

Their argument for the need to transition the
islands into renewable energy is due to the costly
amp
importing of fossil fuels to these islands. In their
‘Project Document’ via GEF and UNDP, they state
“For instance, Saint Lucia imports almost 100% of
its oil needed to run its sole power plant on the
island. According to the Caribbean Electricity
Service Corporation (CARILEC), electricity prices
average at least US$0.34/kWh, in a context where
the average annual household income is
US$12,800 (2011). The dependence on imported
fossil fuels is a familiar story throughout the
region and the lack of diversified resources leaves
the Caribbean islands greatly constrained in its
economic opportunities. The objective of the Ten
Island Challenge (TIC) is to accelerate the
transition of Caribbean island economies from
heavy dependence on fossil fuels to a diverse
platform of renewables and energy efficiency,
thereby establishing a blueprint for other isolated
economies.”

They state that their “Off-Island Stakeholder

Groups” will include: financiers and investors,
multinational renewable energy and energy
efficiency companies, commercial vendors,
consultants, regional media, multilaterals, tourism
industry corporate HQ (cruise companies, large
hotel chains, etc.), energy NGOs, non-profits,
foreign governments and other donors,
replicators, Caribbean diaspora, small island
nations’ governments, and tourists.

Wow, that is a lot of responsibility and

involvement. Their goal is to have all islands
achieve renewable energy penetration that
amounts to 20-50% share of RE in the power
generation mix by 2030.

It’s interesting to note that DNV GL is in the oil and

gas business as well as renewable energy. CEO
Remi Eriksen, believes that renewables and gas
will become friendlies, working together in the
future because gas can also provide baseload
electricity to grids. He takes the position that gas
is the way to go, moving away from coal and other
fossil fuels, and states that by 2022, the
Norwegian Continental Shelf could host a CO2
storage hub. He feels that the “North Sea can be
the CO2 storage hub for Europe and source a new
billion-dollar industry, with huge cost savings for
combating climate change, representing a massive
upside for gas in the future energy mix.”

This was their initial plan, though it has grown

since:

Ultimately, their end game is for “The Carbon

War Room, through its Smart Island Economies
program, will have the infrastructure in place
to be able to expand the lessons learned from
this experience well beyond the initial Ten
Island Challenge participants.” All of this is
being carried out in conjunction with the
“Island Playbook” guidelines created by the
Department of Energy.

Shipmate #1: Clinton Climate

Initiative (Clinton Foundation)

According to their website, “The Clinton Climate

Initiative has partnered with governments of
island nations to develop renewable energy
projects that will reduce fossil fuel consumption
and assist the transition to a low-carbon economy
– with the goal of replicating and scaling this
model to significantly reduce the impacts of
climate change by creating resilient communities.

By partnering with governments, utilities,

financing institutions, and the private sector, we
help islands realize their own vision for a
sustainable future.”

“CCI, launched by the Clinton Foundation in 2006,

is working with small island developing states
around the world to create, advance, and scale
diesel replacement solutions. Rocky Mountain
Institute-Carbon War Room, under the banner of
the Ten Island Challenge, which was officially
launched at Rio+20, is working with ten island
nations to accelerate commercial opportunities to
transition island economies off fossil fuels.”

An ironic and rather comical quote on their

website states “We do not let the fact that we have
different email addresses interfere with getting
things done”, and is posted twice by mistake. Or
was it? After all, duplicate copies of emails are
always good. Maybe it was symbolic?

By 2015 they had already partnered with

governments of 25 island nations across three
continents, prepared over 20 renewable energy
projects in nine island countries, and commended
the Norwegian government for making it all
possible via grants. They also thanked the Dutch
Postcode Lottery and their donors for their
generosity. In another release, they stated that
the project was made possible by the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the
Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

Just two months after Wikileaks launched a

searchable archive of over 30,000 emails from
Hillary Clinton’s private email server, the
government of Norway posted a lengthy
statement on their website as it pertains to their
financial relationship with Clinton Climate
Initiative, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the
Clinton Foundation. They state that they provided
CHAI with NOK $533 million toward health
projects between 2007-2015, and expected to
provide an additional NOK $37 million. They
contributed NOK $51 million, with anticipation of
an additional $19 million toward CCI’s renewable
energy to islands, and state that their
contributions have created a tenfold increase in
investments from the private sector. Cooperation
agreements have been entered into with 21 small
island developing states. They make it very clear
that no funding was provided to the Clinton
Foundation, CCI or CHAI before 2007.

It seems this ‘Ten Island Challenge’ has progressed

quite a bit. According to Rocky Mountain
Institute’s site, they list partnerships with 13
islands, Norway claims there are agreements with
21, and the Clintons stated in 2015 they had
already partnered with 25 islands. The Clintons
have a tendency to exaggerate, so it’s hard to say
which number is accurate.

The Saint Lucia solar farm was a EC $20 million

project, located north of Hewanorra International
Airport. Now, the Clintons state that “it is the first
utility-scale renewable energy project on the
island and is funded, owned and operated by
LUCELEC”, which is contrary to what all other
websites, press releases, and the actual ‘Project
Document’ that breaks down the funding reveals.
In fact, nowhere does it state that funding came
from LUCELEC. They are the monopoly utility
company on the island which the government of
Saint Lucia has 12.4% shares in.

It boasts nearly 15,000 solar panels which will

generate approximately 7 million kWhs (or units)
of electricity per year. Construction of the solar
farm began in November 2017, and the solar farm
began feeding the grid in April, 2018.

The Clinton Climate Initiative, an initiative of the

Clinton Foundation, stated they provided technical
assistance during the procurement process for
the project.

Shipmate #2: Rocky Mountain

Institute & Carbon War Room

Carbon War Room, founded by Richard Branson

in 2009, focuses on initiatives in operation
including shipping efficiency, green capital,
renewable jet fuels, and smart island economics,
with emphasis in environmental areas such as
energy supply, industry, buildings, transport and
waste management.

The launch director for Carbon War Room was

Peter Boyd, who worked for CWR until late 2014,
shortly around the time CWR merged with Rocky
Mountain Institute. He had also served as CEO of
Virgin Mobile South Africa. While working for CWR,
he also served as chief of the U.K.’s Energy
Efficiency Deployment Office, and was on the
advisory board for the World Bank’s Sustainable
Development Network.

Richard Branson is a busy boy, from owning

Necker and Moskito Islands to Virgin Group, and
an energy company called BMR Energy, which it
was recently announced that he will be buying the
STX Solar Farm on St. Croix, and quite possibly the
damaged facility in Estate Donoe on St. Thomas.
In 2016 they installed a 36-megawatt wind farm in
Jamaica and a smaller facility in Guatemala. He
also initiated The Elders back in 2007 with Nelson
Mandela and a lot of familiar faces, in an effort to
combat HIV/AIDS and climate control. Let’s not
forget he was the founding sponsor of ICMEC back
in 1999 as well. This is only the tip of the iceberg
with “projects” Branson is involved with.

In December, 2014 Carbon War Room joined

forces with Rocky Mountain Institute, which had
been around since 1982. Founded by
experimental physicist, Amory Lovins and his
then-wife Hunter, they are dedicated to
consulting, research, publication, and lecturing in
the field of sustainability. Their main focus is on
profitable innovations for energy and resource
efficiency. They have nine initiatives: smart island
economics, electricity platform, renewables
solutions, shipping efficiency, sunshine for mines,
sustainable aviation, trucking efficiency, mobility
transformation, buildings, and reinventing fire:
China. They have headquarters in Colorado, New
York, Washing D.D., and Beijing, China.

Justin Locke, Director of Rocky Mountain Institute,

also had connections to the World Bank. He
served as disaster risk management specialist for
the World Bank and managed one of the largest
per capita investment portfolios in World Bank
history. He accessed climate financing for Eastern
Caribbean countries. Prior to that, he worked for
UNDP as a development specialist at the UNDP
Regional Center based in Fiji, providing technical
assistance to 14 island countries, in addition to
serving as the community/recover program
manager for their multi-country office in Samoa.
From 2002-2004, he was a Peace Corps volunteer
in the Republic of Kiribati.

Shipmate #3: DNV GL

DNV GL is very involved in the ‘Ten Island

Challenge’. In fact, they have a page dedicated to
this on their website, which states: “DNV GL acts
as the key technical advisor for assisting the three
non-profit organizations, local governments and
utilities in this transition.” The three non-profits
being the Clinton Foundation, Carbon War Room,
and Rocky Mountain Institute.

DNV GL is an international accredited registrar

and classification society headquartered in Hovik,
Norway, with 350 offices operating in over 100
countries, with additional subsidiaries in the
shipping and offshore classification society,
making them the leader in the industry. They
provide services to numerous industries including
maritime, renewable energy, oil and gas,
petrochemicals, aviation, automotive,
electrification, healthcare, food & beverage, and
software & information technology.

Prior to becoming DNV GL in 2013, it was

previously ‘Det Norske Veritas’, and was
established in 1864 in Norway to head technical
inspection and evaluation of Norwegian merchant
vessels. It has a long history in the shipping
industry. Just a few years after their inception, in
1867 Germanischer Lloyd was founded in
Hamburg by a group of 600 ship owners, ship
builders and insurers.

On December 20, 2012, the two companies

announced a merger which was approved by
competition authorities in the USA, EU, South
Korea, and China. The merger was officially signed
on September 12, 2013 when Stiftelsen Det
Norske Veritas (an independent foundation)
owned 63.5% of DNV GL shares and Mayfair
Vermogensverwaltung owned 36.5%. On
December 14, 2017, Mayfair sold its shares to
Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas, making it the sole
owner of DNV GL.

Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas is a foundation with

several levels of subsidiaries, all of which they now
own 100%. Here is how it breaks down:

In a nutshell, Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas is an

independent foundation which has no owners or
shareholders and operates with a governing body
consisting of 10 Board of Directors and 45 Council
Members, and was majority owner of Det Norske
Veritas Holding AS. Det Norske Veritas Holding AS
owns its subsidiary DNV Group AS. After the
merger in 2013, when DNV Holding acquired the
GL Group, Germanischer Lloyd SE, they changed
their name to DNV GL Group AS. Once they
finalized their deal with Mayfair in December,
2017, Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas became 100%
owner of Det Norske Veritas Holding AS.
Confused? To summarize: Stiftelsen Det Norske
Veritas is an independent foundation with no
owners or shareholders, yet owns all of its
subsidiaries listed above, five of which are
Norwegian limited companies, one is registered as
a European Society public company, and one is
registered as a Dutch private company with
limited liability.

Whereas a foundation in Norway may not have

external or internal persons with ownership of the
foundation’s assets, the foundation itself can be
an owner of companies, and it may accept
obligations and financial commitments and be
subject to agreements and processes.
Foundations are governed by the ‘Foundation Law’
of June 15, 2001, and the Foundation Authority.

They state in their 2016 Annual Report:

“Stiftelsen Det Norske

Veritas is a free-standing,
autonomous and
independent foundation
whose purpose is to
 safeguard life, property and
the environment. This
purpose is achieved
through its ownership of
companies – of which the
most important is the DNV
GL group, a classification,
certification and technical
assurance and advisory
company.

In 2016, the Board

continued to further
develop and refine the
company’s corporate
governance model and role
as a majority owner and
holding company without
direct involvement in
business operations. This
work is carried out
continuously, in close
cooperation with the other
governing bodies of
Stiftelsen Det Norske
Veritas.”

What’s not indicated above, is the fact that the

DNV GL Group has additional subsidiaries such as
KEMA (shipping), GL Noble Denton (Oil & gas),
and GL Garrad Hassan Canada Inc. GL Noble
Denton was originally two separate companies
dating back to 1867. The two companies scooped
up a dozen maritime and oil & gas businesses
over the years, and merged in 2009 prior to DNV
GL merging in 2013, taking them all over. They
also reflect in their 2016 Annual Report that in
2015 they acquired ISC ‘International Standards
Certification Pty Ltd.’ in Australia and Japan with
focus on the healthcare industry. And, they
acquired ‘Noomas Sertifisering AS’, a leading
Norwegian inspection and certification body
within the fish farming and equipment industry. In
2014 they acquired 70% of shares in Marine
Cybernetics AS (Norway) with the agreement of
acquiring the remaining 30% of shares over a 3-
year period.

DNV GL is organized in a group structure with five

business areas of focus:

Maritime: headquartered in Hamburg,

Germany
Oil & Gas: headquartered in Hovik, Norway
Energy: headquartered in Arnhem, the
Netherlands
Business Assurance: headquartered in London,
UK
Software: headquartered in Hovik, Norway

The main shared service providers including HR,

finance and IT support to all of the business
groups, is headquartered in Hovik, Norway just
outside of Oslo.

Det Norske Veritas Eiendom AS is their real estate

arm which owns their headquarters in Hovik, just
outside of Oslo, Norway, with their parent
company Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas and DNV
GL operating out of the same location. In addition
to the headquarters, Det Norske Vertitas Eiendom
AS brought in real estate revenues of NOK $238
million, of which NOK $18 million was revenue
from companies outside the Group.

This company is quite expansive. They have

offices located all over the world, with multiple
locations close to home in Norway. They span the
outskirts of the U.S. from Boston, Massachusetts
in the East to Miami, Florida in the south, straight
over to Houston, Texas, with several locations up
the coast of California, and upwards to Portland,
Oregon, up north to Seattle, Washington near all
of the islands.

According to their 2017 Annual Report, their net

profit for 2016 was NOK $876 million, in
comparison to NOK $1,233 million in 2015. The
significant difference is due to the arbitral award
related to the financial settlement between
Stiftelsen Det Norske Veritas and Mayfair
Vermogensverwaltung SE merge in 2013. It seems
they had a little bit of a hiccup related to a pre-
merger issue with Mayfair Vermogensverwaltung
SE, which resulted in a NOK $42 million
settlement. Apparently there were some disputes
regarding representations and warranties in the
Business Combination Agreement and on how to
govern DNV GL in accordance with Norwegian law
and the Shareholders’ Agreement. Mayfair was
also ordered to pay NOK $9 million in legal fees.
Google indicates their overall revenue to be at
NOK $19.5 billion for 2017.
What Exactly Does The DNV GL
Group Do?

It is the world’s largest classification society,

providing services for over 13,000 vessels and
mobile offshore units, representing 21% of the
global market share. They are also the largest
technical consultancy and supervisory to the
global renewable energy (wind, wave, tidal, and
solar) and oil & gas industry. 65% of the world’s
offshore pipelines are designed and installed to
DNV GL’s technical standards.

As a classification society, DNV GL sets standards

for ships and offshore structures, known as Class
Rules. They comprise safety, reliability and
environmental requirements that vessels and
other offshore mobile structures in international
waters must comply with. DNV GL is authorized by
130 maritime administrations to perform
certification or verification on their behalf. They
also created ‘Navigator Port’ software that assists
ships with managing electronic paperwork from
ship to shore and makes for a smoother port
clearance. It boasts more than 1600 forms and
port papers required by local and national
authorities worldwide, and they are pre-filled with
ship’s information and crew data. It covers more
than 13,000 ports and terminals, and offers
electronic reporting directly to authorities,
including US eNOAD.

DNV GL also operates the world’s largest high

power and voltage test laboratory, working as an
independent, accredited certifier of electricity
transmission and distribution components. They
are the leader in certifying the renewable energy
industry and handling site assessments,
permitting and design consultancy. Their energy
arm of advisors also handles renewable
integration, plant operations, transmission and
distribution grids, energy store, and
measurements for cyber security.

Additionally, they handle business assurance,

having issued certifications to more than 70,000
companies in multiple industry sectors, and is an
accredited certifier in 80 countries. They provide
accreditation and clinical excellence certifications
to American hospitals as well. DNV GL is a
provider of digital solutions for risk management
and improving safety and asset performance for
ships, pipelines, processing plants, offshore
structures, electric grids and smart cities. Most
recently, they have been accredited by the Alliance
for Water Stewardship (AWS) to issue certificates
proving compliance with the AWS international
standard for freshwater management.

According to their 2016 annual report, the world

shipping and mobile offshore units (MOU) was the
third highest year ever for scrapping, yet despite
this, the world fleet grew by 1% in vessels and 3%
in gross tonnage. There were 940 ships contracted
in the newbuilding market. DNV GL led all
classification societies with 25% of global orders
by GT, and the DNV GL-classed fleet stood at
12,404 vessels and MOUs.

DNV GL has also received numerous U.S.

government contracts for inspection and
certification processes. Between 2015 and 2018
some of those contracts amounted to a combined
total of nearly $1 million.

In 2017, they were selected by the World Bank to

be part of a consortium to support the
development of three new standards in offshore
wind turbine support structures, offshore
substations, and offshore wind farm power cables
in China. They will also be advising the Chinese
government on project financing and risk
management.

Being a Norwegian company, one can see why the

Norwegian Government has a vested interest in
the ‘Ten Island Challenge’, and contributed
$8,372,000 to the Clinton Climate Initiative for
their solar farm projects. DNV GL has 45
overseeing council members and all but seven are
from Norway. In addition to this, Dr. Gro Harlem
Bruntland was the “mother of sustainable
development”. Dr. Gro Harlem is the former Prime
Minister of Norway, former Director-General of
the World Health Organization, and Deputy Chair
of The Elders, a group that was initiated by
Richard Branson in 2007 for the purposes of
combating HIV/AIDS and climate change.

Who are The Elders? Another “humanitarian”

adventure consisting of a group of members such
as Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jimmy Carter,
Desmond Tutu, Ban Ki-moon, and numerous
others. In 2008, Nancy Becker Kennedy, from Los
Angeles, CA, sent an email to John Podesta in the
hopes that President-Elect Obama would consider
her program she proposed pertaining to “creating
millions of jobs through nationalizing in-home
care for seniors and people with disabilities.” She
went on to explain how she hoped Obama was
planning to utilize the invaluable resource of the
‘Global Elders’ and included numerous links about
all of the wonderful members.

Back in 2011, Jimmy Carter sent an email to

former President Obama letting him know that
‘The Elders’ had accepted an invitation from North
Korea to visit Pyongyang. They planned to make
stops in China and South Korea as well. Their
purpose was to learn as much as possible about
humanitarian problems, the political and military
situation, and to encourage peace and
denuclearization of the Peninsula. Mary Robinson,
Gro Harlem Brundtland, and Marti Ahtissari would
be joining him as well. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t
seem much was accomplished on the
denuclearization.

Interesting side note: Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland

was the Director-General of the World Health
Organization from 1998-2003. In 2002, Dr. Jim
Yong Kim, the current President of the World
Bank, nominated by former President Barack
Obama in 2012, was working with the World
Health Organization on a Tuberculosis treatment,
and became the advisor to the Director-General in
2003. Flash forward to May 24, 2018, the World
Health Organization and the World Bank Group
joined forces to strengthen global health security.
World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim co-
led the creation of the ‘Global Preparedness
Monitoring Board’ which is co-chaired by none
other than Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland. The focus
appears to be on outbreaks, pandemics, and
other emergencies with health consequences.

In regards to Saint Lucia and multiple islands in

the region, DNV GL is the technical partner and
lead, with CCI/CWR-RMI focusing on energy
audits, feasibility studies, grid integration studies,
Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs), and are
developing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for
procuring IPPs and contractors.

According to DNV GL, they have already been

working on projects on other islands such as the
British Virgin Islands, Aruba, Bahamas, San Andrés
and Providencia, and a utility scale solar project
on Caye Caulker, Belize, which is partially owned
by Harry Dole.

Shipmate #4: LUCELEC

Up until the beginning of 2016, LUCELEC was the

only fully integrated electricity company in Saint
Lucia with the exclusive right to transmit and
distribute electricity. However, on December 16,
2015, Governor-General Pearlette Louisy enacted
the National Utilities Regulatory Commission Act,
and the National Utilities Regulatory Commission
(NURC) was formed to grant licenses to
independent power producers (IPPs) to generate
electricity from renewable sources. This put a bit
of a strain on LUCELEC since they had always
maintained the monopoly position. The new ACT
would allow for competition in the renewable
energy area, but LUCELEC was confident they
would maintain their position in transmission and
distribution. Due to the mandate to achieve 35%
of electricity production from renewable energy
by 2020, LUCELEC was guided by the National
Energy Transition Strategy (NETS) to pursue
several renewable energy projects. Interestingly,
NETS was developed jointly by the Government of
Saint Lucia with LUCELEC, in consultation with the
Rocky Mountain Institute.

Just for the record, Governor-General Pearlette

Louisy is no stranger to Bill Clinton. She was
Governor-General from 1997-2017. The Saint
Lucia government website still hosts letters of
gratitude toward Bill Clinton, such as this one
from 1999 where “Dame Pearlette Louisy
highlighted the historic visit of President Bill
Clinton to the Eastern Caribbean two years ago:

“What was most memorable

was the tremendous
upsurge of hope and
enthusiasm and generous
goodwill that this visit
generated as well as the
new spirit of partnership
that the Bridgetown Accord
evoked between the
Caribbean and its nearest
neighbor, the United States.
Dame Pearlette Louisy
emphasized that there is
need to recapture this
spontaneous fervour and
vitality which inspired the
deliberations and decisions
of this historic meeting, so
that the efforts at
preserving peace and
democracy and at advancing
 the economic and social
progress to which the
Caribbean and the United
States them committed
themselves can be
sustained.”

On January 18, 2003, after his presidency, Bill

Clinton attended the Ballroom of the Sandals
Grande Hotel for a dinner in honour of him. Many
officials were there in support, such as Governor
General Pearlette Louisy of Saint Lucia, Governor
General of St. Vincent & the Grenadines,
Colleague Prime Ministers of the OECS, Members
of the St. Lucia Cabinet of Ministers, Chief Justice
of the Eastern Caribbean, Members of the
Parliament, Their Excellencies the Members of the
Diplomatic Corps, and other distinguished guests.
Here is a snippet of what they had to say:

“More than ten years ago,

the people of the Caribbean
watched and followed the
trajectory of the presidency
of William Jefferson Clinton.
Over that period of
American prosperity,
President Bill Clinton
earned the admiration of
most and captured the
imagination of many.
Tonight, we are honored
with his presence among
us. Tonight, we who have
mostly seen greatness
unfold from the proximity
of our television screens,
have the distinct pleasure
and the honor of breaking
bread with greatness – in
person.

In the best tradition of

Caribbean culture, a
politician knows when he or
she has made it or has lost
it, when one becomes the
subject of a Calypso. In the
past week, one of our radio
stations has been playing,
over and over, a Calypso
defending your record of
achievement and
accomplishment. The
calypso was composed by
the Mighty Sparrow — a
Trinidadian singer, born in
Grenada, a product of our
Caribbean, acknowledged
and honoured as the world’s
greatest calypsonian. It’s
most popular refrain is
“Don’t Touch Me President”.
Now, when a Caribbean
 Calypsonian whose favorite
pastime is “dissing”
politicians, tells the world
Don’t Touch His President,
then Sir, you know for sure
that you have entered the
annals of the untouchable,
the invincible and the
unassailable.

The ties that bind the

United States and the
Caribbean are not simply
the links of history, but the
association of family,
migration, opportunity, and
geography. It would be no
exaggeration to say that not
since John F. Kennedy has a
United States President
captured the minds and
hearts of Caribbean people,
as did President Bill Clinton
during his tenure at the
White House.”

It is remarkable how those words may otherwise

be interpreted.

Shipmate #5: GRUPOTEC

The company was founded in 1997 and is based in
Valencia, Spain. It also has a presence in the
United States (California, Miami, and Puerto Rico),
Morocco, the United Kingdom, Italy, France,
Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Algeria, and India.

Valencia International reported on Grupotec,

stated that Grupotec is dedicated to engineering
and architectural services and has been
undergoing a spectacular growth period.
However, the article is not dated. They state, “The
company’s 2014 revenues have reached
134.389.659 euros thanks largely to contracts
obtained in the UK in the areas of renewable
energies and sustainable development. Overseas
income in fact represents more than 90% of the
income of this company founded in 1997.”

Oddly, Grupotec doesn’t even mention their

project in Saint Lucia on their website. In fact, they
haven’t added new projects to their website since
2013, and the news media coverage on their
website only contains stories between 2010 and
2015. For a company that has expanded greatly,
one would think they would promote such
projects.

According to the videos (top of article) on the big

solar farm project and the Governors House in
Saint Lucia, Grupotec was the main
builder/installer on this job, yet they have very
little internet coverage.

Other Shipmates Working

on The Ten Island
Challenge on Other
Islands
Note: This is the short list. More research is
required to cover all partners on all islands.

Shipmate #6: Emera (Caribbean)

Inc.

Emera (Caribbean) Inc. (EC), is a wholly owned

subsidiary of Emera Inc., a publicly traded energy
utility company. Emera Incorporated has
headquarters in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Canada,
and as of 2017 it had revenues of $6.2 billion with
assets of $29 billion. It originated from the
provincial Crown corporation Nova Scotia Power
Incorporated in 1998 and the name was changed
in 2000 to Emera. In 2013, Emera acquired
Bridgeport Energy, Rumford Power, and Tiverton
Power plants from Capital Power Corporation for
$541 million. In 2016, Emera acquired TECO
Energy, based out of Tampa, Florida, which
included Tampa Electric, Peoples Gas (not the one
in Chicago), and New Mexico Gas, for $10.4 billion.

In addition to the above utility companies, Emera

also owns Nova Scotia Power, Emera Maine,
Barbados Light and Power Company, Grand
Bahama Power Company, Dominica Electricity
Services, and Light and Power Holdings –
LUCELEC. It also owns power plants and trades
and markets natural gas and electricity as well as
two natural gas companies.

Now follow this: Emera Inc. owns 80% of Light &

Power Holdings. Emera Caribbean Limited, who is
wholly owned by Emera Inc., sold its 19.1%
interest in LUCELEC to Light & Power Holdings Ltd,
also owned by Emera Inc., in 2011 for $25.8
million. This brought Light and Power Holdings to
an equal top two shareholder in LUCELEC.

In 1994 LUCELEC went public. According to their

2016 credit rating report, as well as information
on their website, the current makeup of
shareholders include: EMERA (Caribbean) Inc.
(20%), First Citizens Bank Ltd. (20%), National
Insurance Corporation of Saint Lucia (16.8%),
Castries Constituencies Council (16.4%),
Government of Saint Lucia (12.4%), and individual
shareholders (14.4%). LUCELEC’s shares are
traded on the Eastern Caribbean Securities
Exchange.

Aside from Emera (Caribbean) Inc. being an

investor in LUCELEC in Saint Lucia, they are also
reaping the benefits from their Barbados Light &
Power company in Barbados, Grand Bahama
Power Supply, Emera Caribbean Renewables Ltd.,
and are a majority shareholder in Dominica
Electricity Services Ltd.

Emera was working in St. Vincent on a geothermal

project that was expected to commence in 2016.
In their 2015 report they state “legal, policy and
technical support continues to be provided by the
Clinton Climate Initiative and Rocky Mountain
Institute.”

In regards to their overall clean energy strategy,

they are seeing a “driving change in the global
energy arena” that include insights from the U.N.
Framework Convention on Climate Change from
2015 that was held in Paris and “charts a new
course in the global climate effort.” From their
climate change agenda, they are seeing results
with new energy policies made by Caribbean
governments. They also state “Further impetus is
coming from initiatives such as the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition announced by Bill Gates and
others that are expected to accelerate technology
developments in the renewable energy sector and
reduce the cost of alternatives.” As noted above in
the timeline, this coalition’s goal is to raise billions
from governments for renewable energy to
various locations. The group consisting of the likes
of Jeff Bezos, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, and
numerous others contributed an initial investment
of $2 billion of their own funds.

Shipmate #7: SIDS Lighthouse

Initiative (IRENA)

IRENA was founded in 2009 by Hermann Scheer

and is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates. It is an intergovernmental organization
to promote adoption and sustainable use of
renewable energy. It consists of 153 states and
the European Union, and is an official United
Nations observer. Herman Scheer was a socialist
democrat member of the German Bundestag
(parliament), president of Eurosolar and general
chairman of the World Council for Renewable
Energy. According to Wikipedia, in 2010, “he
suddenly died in a hospital in Berlin from heart
failure after an unspecified short and severe
illness.” Adnan Amin, Kenyan representative, was
sworn in on April 4, 2011 as the first Director-
General.
In 2015, IRENA developed the SIDS Lighthouses
Initiative to support the strategic development
and implementation of renewable energy in SIDS
(small island developing states), and to assist
policy makers with the required steps to enable
targeted action. They provide coordinated support
for islands to convert fossil-based power systems
to renewable energy. They work together with
private and public partnerships,
intergovernmental and non-governmental
stakeholder organizations, and offer technical
expertise in planning, identifying, structuring and
executing projects, in addition to assisting with
financing stages. They state on their website that
they have mobilized US $500 million.

The Climate Initiatives Platform website indicates

the complete breakdown of information on the
SIDS Lighthouses Initiative since its inception in
2015. According to this document, they claim to
have an investment volume of $1 billion,
representing 19 registered projects since the
launch of the Caribbean portal at COP21.

Under participants, they list 19 members:

European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
New Zealand, Norway, United Arab Emirates,
United States of America, Indian Ocean
Commission, IRENA, Association of the Overseas
Countries and Territories of the European Union,
UNDP, World Bank, ENEL, Clean Energy
Solutions Center, Clinton Climate Initiative, Rocky
Mountain Institute – Carbon War Room, SE4ALL.

They indicate they partner with:

Antigua and Barbuda, Mauritius, Bahamas, Nauru,
Barbados, Palau, Cabo Verde, Samoa, Comoros,
São Tomé and Príncipe, Cook Islands, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, Fiji, Seychelles, Grenada,
Solomon Islands, Guyana, Tonga, Kiribati, Trinidad
and Tobago, Maldives, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands,
Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia, ENEL,
New Zealand, European Union, Norway, France,
SE4ALL, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Indian
Ocean Commission, United States of America,
IRENA, UNDP, Japan, World Bank Group

According to the Clinton Foundation’s press

release on September 1, 2015, they state that the
Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) is teaming up with
Rocky Mountain Institute-Carbon War Room (RMI-
CWR), and the International Renewable Energy
Agency’s (IRENA) Lighthouses Initiative to help
island nations accelerate the deployment of
renewable energy and transition away from fossil
fuels. They refer to the small island developing
states as (SIDS) for short. Not to be confused with
SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) most people
are familiar with.

Shipmate #8: CARILEC

The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation

(CARILEC) was founded in 1989 by USAID part of
an electric utilities modernization project
implemented by NRECA (National Rural Electric
Cooperative) under a five-year co-operative
agreement. It began with 9 members, and
currently has 35 members, 67 associate members,
and 5 affiliate members.

They have partnerships with Rocky Mountain

Institute-Carbon War Room, Clinton Climate
Initiative, IRENA, and CARICOM (Caribbean
Community) of 15 Caribbean nations and
dependencies, all of which are presented front
and center at the top of their website.

CARILEC is an association of electric utilities,

suppliers, manufacturers and other stakeholders
working in the electricity industry in the
Caribbean. Their goal is to become a major player
in forging member states to develop an energy
package.

In 2016, CARILEC signed a MOU (memorandum of

understanding) with Rocky Mountain Institute-
Carbon War Room which entailed a framework for
cooperation and coordination in the renewable
energy sector and information sharing between
utilities in the region.

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4 COMMENTS

MARTHA P THACKER
AUGUST 18, 2018 AT 7:34 AM

Emera is a Canadian company which

bought out one of two large Maine
electric suppliers. Hiked rates and
give sorry service.

The gas….perhaps a use for the

Keystone pipeline? It is of no use to
Americans..TransCanada is the
builder. So it is also
Canadian.Because of Trump’s new
tariffs, Europe is scheduled to buy
gas that goes through this pipeline
instead of Russia…Odd, the pipeline,
the production of shale oil out of
Canada and some in America is
disaster for the environment.

But South America and Europe

would be quite the market.

C
AUGUST 19, 2018 AT 10:35 PM

I’m not quite finished reading your

article, but will do so tomorrow. But
before I forget, you may want to look
at the following links. There are
some weird pics of things that look
like missile silos or cisterns maybe
(people can’t seem to figure out what
they are) on an island off the coast of
Washington state that was involved
in some of the recent plane
shenanigans out there:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1028453423505727489.html
. You might also want to check out
this reddit thread which talks about
some of this as well:
https://old.reddit.com/r/The_GreatAwakening/comments/96p7rp/wow_a_crazy_string_
. Thank you for your hard work on
this article. Nice to see journalism
alive and well. After years of MSM
consumption, I thought it was
permanently a lost art. Good job!

COREY LYNN
AUGUST 21, 2018 AT 7:39 PM

Thank you. I will check all of

this out.

TERESA
AUGUST 20, 2018 AT 10:38 AM

I can’t help but wonder if all these so

called renewable energy “projects”
are tied into the scams being passed
off to the masses as the UN Agenda
2030 stated mission goals.

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